NSCNA Blog Archive

  • City of Austin Planning and Priorities

    Administrator

    Toby Futrell, the City Manager, invited representatives from all Austin neighbhorhood groups to attend a town hall meeting on July 19th of this year. You can view the invitation here.

    The City staff were busy putting together 2008’s proposed budget and wanted to get feedback from the neighborhoods before finalizing it. During this event, more than 100 neighborhood groups were represented and the top priorities of each neighborhood was discussed. Our President, Malcolm St. Romain attended the meeting and discussed our top issues with many people.

    Today, we received a letter from Toby with the results of that meeting, containing a list of the top 5 priorities most sought after by neighborhood groups as well as a detailed description of each top priority with information on how much money each will get in the proposed 2008 budget.

    You can read the letter here.

    And please feel free to go to the new discussion forum and discuss it in more detail. Tell us what you think…

  • 4th of July Parade photos

    Administrator

    Sandy Perkins provided some photos from this year’s 4th of July Parade.

    2007 4th of July Parade photos

    If you have any photos you would like to share from this event, please email them to Chris Jones at webmaster @ nscna dot org.

  • August 7th: National Night Out

    Administrator

    The block captains distributed flyers to all residents last week inviting everyone to the National Night Out event on Tuesday August 7th at Pillow Elementary. If you did not get a flyer, click “Continue reading” to read a copy.

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  • Commander Forum notes from May 8th, 2007

    Administrator

    APD held their second quarterly Commanders Forum at Barrington Elementary on May 8th at 7:00pm. Commander Al Eells and District Rep Sgt. William Beechinor gave a presentation on the following agenda:

    An award of recognition was presented to Wooten resident Evan Rifee for his assistance in apprehending a suspect that is being investigated in connection with 16 BOV (Burglary of a Vehicle) crimes across the area. Mr. Rifee noticed the individual looking in car windows and called 911. He was able to give a detailed description of the suspect to APD and stayed in the area to direct APD to the suspect’s whereabouts.

    Another award was presented to Sr. Police Officer Jason Chiappardi for Officer of the Quarter, Jan – Mar 2007 for the North Central Command Area.

    Office Mike Young made a presentation about a “crack house” at 9011 Slayton Dr. This residence was owned by one woman for many years and after she died, the house was held up in probate due to disputes over the inheritance of the property. In the meantime, it became a haven for crack addicts. Forty individuals had been arrested at this residence over just a few months and each gave this address as their “home”. Due to the complexity of dealing with the ownership of the house in limbo, APD had to employ some extraordinary efforts to clear out the bad elements and get the house cleaned up. It is still an ongoing situation.

    Officer Lee Davis gave a presentation on Project 2007 where 1500 UT students volunteered through various UT organizations to clean up a very blighted area.

    Commander Al Eells gave a presentation of crime stat trends for the North Central Command Area. Below is a summary comparison with some other sectors. Note the area in sq miles difference between NCAC and NWAC:



    Crime Category
    N CENTRAL AREA COMMAND (13 SQ MILES)
    NE AREA COMMAND
    NW AREA COMMAND (45 SQ MILES)

    MURDER
    N/A
    200%
    -100%

    RAPE
    25%
    +30%
    -42%

    ROBBERY
    -23%
    +6%
    -31%

    AGG ASSAULT
    -4%
    +14%
    -23%

    TOT VIOLENT CRIME
    -9%
    +13%
    -30%

    BURGLARY
    +30%
    +33%
    +15%

    THEFT
    -2%
    +21%
    +3%

    BURGLARY OF VEH
    -2%
    +17%
    +5%

    AUTO THEFT
    +24%
    +71%
    +40%

    TOT PROPERTY CRIME
    +6%
    +26%
    +5%

    Commander Eells attributed the drop in robberies to the new bike patrols, removing undesirable people from the neighborhoods (transients, drug arrests, prostitution arrests). Burglaries are up all through the city. Auto Theft is also up. The category of Rape is mostly where the attacker was known to the victim, not random attacks.

    North Central Command is half-way through their N. Lamar Clean up. The N. Lamar corridor is by far, the most crime ridden area in the whole sector and so efforts are being concentrated here for curfew enforcement, more bike patrols, bait vehicles to entrap Auto Theft attempts, shutting down transient camps, abatement work and passing out crime prevention info.

    Officer Lee Davis offered to come to a any resident’s house and perform a free security analysis of the property. He can give some good suggestions for how to “crime proof” your property. To contact him call 834-7456, or Kay Vargas at 834-7402.

    There will also be an opportunity to have your car windows etched with the vin number. This results in the windows being traceable in case of auto theft. It also may represent a discount from your car insurance carrier. Details will be announced later.

  • Neighborhood Map

    Administrator


    I have put together a Google map of the neighborhood located at:

    https://www.nscna.org/maps/index.html

    You should also see it to the right in the sidebar. Called “NSCNA Map”

    There is a main toggle/legend box at the top left corner. It has 5 checkbox options:

    – NSCNA Members
    – Apartments
    – Subdivisions
    – Yard of the Month
    – Block Captains

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